Quotes About Fabrication

As time goes on, thing do get made up.

Some people fake their death, I'm faking my life.

We may never know why Joe Ellis fabricated a heroic past. But we know that the life he embellished has deeply diminished the life he'd earned.

When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.

Lies are stories.

His life in general had been a neatly wrapped package of lies.

When he fell down the stairs, he told people he'd had a stroke. He was just pissed out of his skull. I love Dirk, he is such a drama queen.

Countries, sovereignty, citizenship, and laws are all social constructions: abstractions invented by humans.

A 3D printer needs three elements: a bit of information, some raw material, some energy, and it can produce any object that was not there before.

I make things up for a living. It would be pretty boring to just fictionalize real people.

The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication, exaggeration, denial.

The old model for India was to be self-sufficient. It was the ideal India became independent with, that you spin your own thread, make your own clothes.

The lie that started it all.

sometimes lies are more interesting than the truth

Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.

I shall commence, I think, with a slight exaggeration and go on from there into an outright lie.

I don't talk about my personal life so they [the media] had to make one up for me.

An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.

the woman I knew didn't exist. You had given phony references

The problem that I think is reasonable to assert about Fox and its coverage is that they make up stories out of whole cloth and then make a big deal out of them.

This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.

It was true that there was no such person as Comrade Ogilvy, but a few lines of print and a couple of faked photographs would soon bring him into existence

I left school when I was 16; then I worked for my father, who was a welder. And I was a welder for three years, you know, welder of fabrication, metal 'cause it was a big industrial town, Sheffield. It was much steel and coal and stuff like that.

For the vast majority of world history, human life - both culture and biology - was shaped by scarcity. Food, clothing, shelter, tools, and pretty much everything else had to be farmed or fabricated, at a very high cost in time and energy.